The story is from December 2022.
Director Prakash, who works in the Jharkhand film industry, reached the police station in his car. A three-year-old girl was in hand. As soon as he got down, he told the policemen standing nearby that there was a dead body in the car deck. When the car was opened, there was actually a body in the trunk. That deadbody belonged to the famous actress of Nagpur industry Rhea Kumari, popularly known as Isha Alia in the industry.
The clothes were scattered, there was blood on the body and the body was in a disorderly condition, as if the body had been hurriedly loaded into a car. The police immediately took out the body, placed it on a stretcher and started an investigation.
The director husband who brought the dead body was crying and saying that robbers had killed his wife. A 3-year-old girl held in her arms could not understand anything.
As soon as the investigation started, the police had many questions. The question is, if the robbers opened fire, then why did they leave the husband and daughter? If the robbers wanted to rob, why did they kill? The question is also whether an incident like robbery actually took place.
Find out the answers to all these questions and the story of actress Isha Alia's murder and conspiracy, today in chapter 3 of the untold story-
Rhea Kumari was a famous actress from Jharkhand. He acted in many Nagpuri music videos, which gained him a lot of popularity. He also had his own YouTube channel, which had millions of subscribers.
While working in the industry, he met director Prakash Albela. He acted in several music videos for Prakash. Although Prakash was already married, spending time together, the two began to like each other.
Isha Alia in Nagpuri song Ago Gori.
When Prakash's relationship with his first wife began to deteriorate, he married Rhea Kumari. After marriage they had a daughter. All three lived in Hazaribagh area of Ranchi. Even after marriage, Rhea Kumari continued to work in films and music videos.
He got a film in December 2022. The producer of the film lived in Kolkata, on his request Isha left for Kolkata on the midnight of 27–28 December to pick up the costumes, but unfortunately she could not complete the journey and was killed on the way.
The first statement of husband Prakash Albela was taken for investigation. According to Prakash's statement, he reached the Ranchi-Howrah highway around 6 am. He stopped at a deserted place to urinate, but was approached by three armed robbers as he got out of the car.
Those robbers first grabbed Prakash's purse and then started robbing Karma. Meanwhile, Isha also got down from the car, while her 3-year-old daughter was on Prakash's lap.
Isha Alia's body in Prakash Albela's car.
When Isha resisted the robbers, they opened fire on her. Seeing Isha fall, Prakash raised the alarm and the robbers got scared and ran away. There was a lot of blood. There was no one nearby to help, so Prakash Isha took Alia in the car and drove 8 kilometers away, where she sought help from some locals she met. The locals took him to a nearby hospital. The police were also informed. Isha Alia was declared dead at the hospital.
The local police are taking Isha's body out of the car.
According to Prakash's statement, the crime scene was first investigated. Prakash, crying with his 3-year-old daughter in his lap, took the police to the scene. He told the direction of arrival and escape of the killers. The police noticed that there was a factory near the crime scene, which had CCTV cameras installed.
What was surprising when the camera was checked was that there was no movement as per Prakash's statement. In time no one came there nor was anyone seen fleeing from there.
Prakash Albela with the police at the scene of the incident. She has a 3-year-old daughter in her lap.
When the forensic team closely examined the crime scene, there was no bullet tip, which usually falls from a bullet after firing. Also, there were no traces of blood, whereas as per Prakash's statement, Isha fell on the ground as soon as the bullet rang out.
The next link in the investigation was the car in which Prakash brought Isha's dead body. The condition of the car was bad. The back seat was covered in blood. Isha was shot in the neck, leaving pieces of his brain stuck to the car seat. The forensic team also found the front part of the bullet inside the car. Evidence linked to the incident and Prakash's statement did not match, leading the police to suspect Prakash.
Prakash's statement has also been proved wrong in the report received from the team of doctors who conducted the post-mortem. Prakash said that the robbers shot Isha in the encounter, but Isha was actually shot point blank, which went through her brain.
This was not possible during the fight. This became possible only when firing was done under controlled conditions. Doctors claimed that Isha Alia was sleeping when she was shot.
A third reason for suspicion was Prakash's claim that he received help 8 kilometers away from the crime scene, while only 100 meters from where the bullets were fired was a traffic police check post, where the police were present that morning.
It was only a day after Isha's death that her family filed a complaint against Prakash accusing them of murdering their daughter. In the complaint, the family members said that Prakash used to beat Isha frequently.
This evidence was enough to arrest Prakash. When the police arrested Prakash, he kept saying, I did not kill my wife. After reciting the same statement several times, Prakash broke down against the strictness of the police. He accepted the charges.
According to Prakash's confession, he plotted to kill Isha Alia before leaving home. A few days ago he came in contact with Mohit Kumar through Facebook.
Their friendship grew on social media and for the sake of friendship, Mohit provided arms to Prakash. Prakash's brother Sandeep was also involved in the murder, who concocted a story of the murder and planned to pass it off as a robbery. Howrah police arrested the three criminals connected with this case in just 24 hours.
Photograph of Prakash Albela taken during arrest.
What was the reason for the murder?Actually, Prakash was married to another woman before marrying Isha Alia aka Rhea Kumari, with whom he had two children. Isha was not aware of this. A few months after the marriage, when Isha came to know about this, there was a huge uproar in the house. There were frequent quarrels between the two on this issue and many times the matter even reached the point of blows.
The quarrel escalated to such an extent that a Panchayat was also sitting on this issue in Ranchi's Hazaribagh. According to the decision of the arbitrators, Prakash had to give equal rights to both the wives. However, Isha was against it. She often prevented Prakash from meeting his first wife, which became a source of controversy. On the other hand, Prakash objected to Isha's stardom and her open nature. It often prevented him from meeting people and partying.
Amidst all these controversies, Prakash Albela was in debt of Rs 30 lakhs due to the loss of money invested in films. Prakash's debt was mounting, but his wife Isha was not helping him even though he had millions of rupees. Isha also had many insurances in her name. Then Prakash Albela hatched a conspiracy to kill Isha to settle all the disputes together. First he collected weapons and then killed Isha on the pretext of taking her to Kolkata.
No burial ground found in ancestral village Within a few hours, the case of actress Isha Alia's murder came to light, but on the other hand, her cremation was also controversial. When Isha Alia's body was handed over to her family after the post-mortem, the family took her body to her native village Chauparan. However, the villagers did not allow her to be cremated as they were opposed to her marrying someone from another caste. After much controversy, his mortal remains were brought to Hazaribagh, where he was laid to rest.
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